coble
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coble
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English cobel; probably of Celtic origin (compare Welsh ceubal, ceubol “skiff, ferryboat”), ultimately from Late Latin caupulus, caupilus “small sailing vessel with a high prow”
Example Sentences
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“If it were not too late,” I cried with indignation, “I would take the coble and go out to warn them.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson
An old term for a variety of the coble.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The Island of Earraid is a small, unimportant island off the coast of Scotland. 381-2 A coble is a small boat used in fishing.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
You get a coble, and a yauld old Celt, its master, and are rowed across to Inchmahome, the Isle of Rest.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
By a combination of daring, strength and skill, the father and daughter reached the wreck in their coble and brought back four men and a woman to the lighthouse.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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